Mystery as gardener's injury found to be caused by bullet

[TimberWolf]

The article is more of a mystery than the mystery.

Mystery as gardener's injury found to be caused by bullet - Telegraph

[DS23]

61 is elderly?

[MaryPoppins]

The article is more of a mystery than the mystery.

Mystery as gardener's injury found to be caused by bullet - Telegraph

I would suggest to Steve Eckersley, of West Didsbury CID that perhaps, just possibly - Mr Hesford was, well, shot? With a gun?

I would also suggest that the online editor of the Telegraph.co.uk be shot with the same gun.

[TimberWolf]

I would suggest to Steve Eckersley, of West Didsbury CID that perhaps, just possibly - Mr Hesford was, well, shot? With a gun?

I would also suggest that the online editor of the Telegraph.co.uk be shot with the same gun.

A ballistic expert worked out he was shot through the eye? What about the hole in his eye socket spouting blood, wasn't that a clue?

[MaryPoppins]

A ballistic expert worked out he was shot through the eye? What about the hole in his eye socket spouting blood, wasn't that a clue?

But more importantly - what about the atrocious spelling in the article?

[threaded]

Maybe he voted LibDem?

[Churchill]

Maybe he voted LibDem?

Probably, doesn't look like the bullet did much damage to a brain...

Btw, I've got an alibi!

[Paddy]

I would guess that it was a round that had been dropped or lost on his lawn for soom time. The lawn mower could have then fired it when the blade came into contact with it, môn ami

[Churchill]

I would guess that it was a round that had been dropped or lost on his lawn for soom time. The lawn mower could have then fired it when the blade came into contact with it, môn ami

It would need some force behind it to penetrate his skull and then transit through to the back of his skull - bloody unlucky anyway.

[TimberWolf]

Or perhaps it was an old war wound, only discovered on x-ray after the gardener fainted on the lawn. That would explain how the medics didn't discover the hole in his eye socket spouting blood, but not how the bullet got in there minus an entry wound from the ballistics experts perspective. It's a mystery.